Sinful Tunes And Spirituals. Black Folk Music To The Civil War

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Illinous Press
Publisher Place: Uebana
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: Reprint

Description: 433 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This title is awarded both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association. From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited work songs and "shouts" of freedmen, in "Sinful Tunes and Spirituals" Dena J. Epstein traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises. This classic work is being reissued with a new author's preface on the silver anniversary of its original publication.

ISBN: 9780252071508